Nomura’s 8 ‘grey swans’ for 2019
Black Swan (Calvin Teo)
Are you familiar with ‘black swan’ and ‘grey swan’ events. Here is some information:
Many investors will be familiar with the term “Black Swans” — the term coined by author Nassim Nicholas Taleb to describe unexpected or unlikely market events that can cause huge disruption.
Nicholas Taleb argued that, while unlikely, the outsized impact of black swan events means investors and companies should have contingency plans in place to protect themselves just in case.
But what are grey swans? Nomura’s global FX strategist Bilal Hafeez and his team describe them as “risks that many had highlighted, but turned out to materialise in a much more extreme fashion than expected.” 12/14/18 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nine-grey-swan-risks-watch-markets-2019-070027149.html
As it has been doing in the recent past, Nomura again came up with a list of ‘grey swan’ events. This time for 2019:
Here are Nomura’s grey swans:
The end of populsim {sic}
Trump’s election in the US, the Brexit vote in Britain, the rise of the Five Star Movement in Italy, the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, the yellow vest protest in France — the rise of populist politics has been a defining story of global politics for the last few years.
Hafeez and his team lay the blame at the feet of China, arguing that: “Globalisation, rather than just producing cheap goods for rich countries, has now allowed countries such as China to take middle-class jobs from developed countries.” This has fuelled resentment, Nomura argued.
“From this it follows that if China’s model falters, then it could provide a leading indicator
of populism declining elsewhere,” Hafeez and his team wrote. “And it is certainly the case that China’s model is under pressure.”If populism fails to deliver on its promise of re-balancing economies to favour the downtrodden, then its popularity could begin to wane. Nomura cites the splintering factions on Brexit and the US Republicans’ loss of the House in November as signs this could be beginning.
Oil goes to $20
“Oil prices have a recent history of moving from boom to bust and in ways that oil analysts have not expected,” Hafeez and his team wrote, suggesting that such an unexpected crash could happen next year.
While unlikely, the Nomura team said that any slowdown in Chinese economic growth could seriously dent demand and push down the price of oil …
The ‘big market quake’
“It’s easy to paint a picture of a market crisis in 2019,” Hafeez wrote.
The Fed is hiking interest rates and reducing its balance sheet, the Bank of Japan and the ECB are both curtailing massive bond purchases to support markets, and both the Chinese and US economies are set to slow. …
Italian debt recovers …
Italy runs a budget surplus when debt repayments are stripped out and has a current account surplus. Italy’s budget plans, if successful, could provide the same kind of economic growth that Trump’s tax cuts provoked in the US. …
Emerging market deflation
Inflation is at a historic low in India, Brazil, Indonesia, Russia, and South Africa, leading Hafeez to write: “It’s unusual for so many large EMs [emerging markets] to have a lengthy period of low inflation… and it suggests something structural could be going on.”
Currency pressure from the US could prove a deflationary force, as many emerging economies have weak growth. …
The Chinese renminbi recovers
The market currently expects the Chinese renminbi to depreciate against the dollar next year but Nomura said clients may want to consider the possibility of the reverse happening. …
Global growth accelerates, not slows
Almost all analysts expect 2019 to be a tough year for economic growth as the twin engines of the global economy — the US and China — both slow.
But consensus can sometimes be wrong and Nomura said there are some signs that the global economy could actually do well next year. …
Euro area deflation
Inflation in the eurozone is tracking at around 1%, which is much lower than it usually would be at this stage in the economic cycle. That means that “when growth does roll over, deflation risks increase far quicker than they would normally,” Hafeez and his team wrote. …
An inflation ‘sonic boom’
Nomura wrote: “Although inflation has been fleeting and sporadic, what if it has just been pent up and is waiting to be unleashed? The US economy could be one of the first to confront higher inflation at full employment.”
US growth is expected to slow in 2019 but if for some reason it keeps up a solid pace then market forces may create a “sonic boom” in inflation late in the year, Nomura warned, as full employment leads to higher wages and rising prices. 12/14/18 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nine-grey-swan-risks-watch-markets-2019-070027149.html
Related to the first item, whether or not you call it the ‘end of populism,’ we will one day see a reorganization in Europe where a powerful dictator, called the beast, will rise up (Revelation 17:12-13).
As far as inflation goes, the USA has set itself up for massive inflation, though 2019 will not be the year where inflation will get so bad that the USA dollar will be worth no more than the cotton paper it is printed on.
Grey swan events essentially mean that they are possibly predictable.
‘Grey swans’ are a takeoff of ‘black swans.’
Notice also the following:
The black swan theory or theory of black swan events . . . was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain:
- The disproportionate role of high-profile, hard-to-predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations in history, science, finance, and technology
- The non-computability of the probability of the consequential rare events using scientific methods (owing to the very nature of small probabilities)
- The psychological biases that make people individually and collectively blind to uncertainty and unaware of the massive role of the rare event in historical affairs (Wikipedia, viewed 12/12/13)
Some events that people feel are not predictable, of course, are predictable.
Notice what God had recorded in His word:
9 Remember the former things of old,
For I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,’
11 Calling a bird of prey from the east,
The man who executes My counsel, from a far country.
Indeed I have spoken it;
I will also bring it to pass.
I have purposed it;
I will also do it. (Isaiah 46:9-11)
God’s counsel will stand. That includes prophecies from the Bible.
As far as Nomura goes, its success in predicting grey swan events has not been that good. Partially this is because it did not look at scripture–though some events it discussed before (and now) could happen later than the year(s) they were predicted for.
We in the Continuing Church of God “have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts” (2 Peter 1:19, KJV).
To look at a 2017 list of what to watch in 2018, as well as to see what to watch in 2019, check out the following article: 19 items to prophetically watch in 2019.
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